¡Descarga analysis de un texto del libro Robinson Crusoe y más Apuntes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! Moran Wang Argument Essay Text 2 from ‘‘Robinson Crusoe’’ In this particular essay, I will give a brief analysis about the fragment of text from the novel ‘’ Robinson Crusoe ’’, by Daniel Defoe. I would like to analyze this fragment of text in three aspects: the linguistic it uses, narrator and character it involves and relation of the fragment to the whole novel. First of all, I would like to give a background information about the text, which helps us to deep the analysis of it. This fragment is about the beginning of the novel, in which Robinson ignored his parent’s advice and sailed to the sea and met storm. In the aspect of linguistic, we can see that the story is written in the past tense and past perfect tense.It may suggest the story is the memory of narrator. The use of Free Indirect style is frequent. We can find various examples in both paragraphs. For instance, in the first paragraph, ‘‘I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done…’’,’’… came now fresh into my mind...’’, in these sentences, we notice that both use the past tense ‘‘began’’, ‘‘came’’, in the meantime, both use time indicator ‘’now’’, which indicate the present state. In the second paragraph, we can find another example,‘‘Now I saw….’’. Respect to the Narrator and Character. I would like to mention two things. From one hand, there are two voices involve in the text, one voice is belong to the narrator and the other is from the character. The narrator is Robinson, who wrote about his journey years after he had experienced in; the voice belongs to the character is also belong to Robinson, who was experiencing the journey ‘‘at that time’’, as the text indicates. The text shows a lot of examples which offer clues to identify two voices in the text. For example, besides ‘‘at that time’’, we can find more time indicators such like ‘‘ a year after’’, ‘‘in an ill hour’’, ‘‘a few days after’’ etc. All of these time indicators suggest that there are two voices involve. Let me be more specific, I would like to take one of examples mentioned above, ‘‘in an ill hour’’ in the sentence ‘‘…. and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London’’. I suggest the ‘‘ill hour’’ refers to the storm Robinson met after bounded to London.When Robinson was about to sail to sea to London in his companion’s father’s ship, he was excited even to throw away ‘‘my father’s tears and my mother’s entreaties’’ as he wrote later. Then, why did he say ‘‘ill hour’’? if he would not able to know nor to prevent the storm was about to come? The only answer may be Robinson as the narrator who wrote down the ‘‘ill hour’’, has already experienced it, he met the storm and merely dead. Other, ‘‘God knows’’ may suggest that Robinson as character and other people on the ship didn’t know about the ‘’ill hour ’’ would come later, but only God knows it. So we could say that this part of narration only belongs to the narrator. In the second paragraph, we can find another example, which does not use the time indicator, but a demonstrative ‘‘this’’ to show us the clue of the appearance of two voices in the text, in this case, the voice of the character. ‘‘.….; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage..’’, Robinson at that time was meeting
